Lighting device for lamps



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A. H. SOHLUETER. LIGHTING DEVIGE FOR LAMPS. No. 270,849. Patented Jan. 16,1883.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

INVENTOR NITED STATES PATENT Fries.

LlGHT-|NG DEVICE FOR LAMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Application filed July 7, 1882.

T 0 all whom 2t may concern Beitknown thatI,ADoLPHHnNRYScHLUE- TER, of the city of San Franoisco,in the county of San Francisco and State of Oalifornia,have made a new and useful Improvement in Lighting Dgvices for Lamps, 850.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and i-xact descriptionof the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a lamp-burner embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a view, partly in section and partly in side view, thereof; and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the same.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for lighting lamps, lamp-stoves, or other medium for producing light or generating heat by coal-oil or other oil, and has for its Object to effect the convenient and ready lightingofthe same without requiring the removal of the chimney or other fixtures, or the person standing in an elevated position where the lamp is suspended from a ceiling or otherwise supported out of convenient reach.

The nature of this invention consists in combining with a wick tube an oil absorbent adapted to absorb the oil of its wick, and to extend a greater or less distance therefrom, by which the lighting operation may be performed by simply applying the ignited match or flame to the outer end of substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In carrying out my invention I employ, in connection with the wick-tube A of a lampburner or oil-stove or other medium for producing light or generating heat by coal-oil or other oil, the device B, to permit the convenient and ready lighting of its wick, aspresently explained. The lighting device B is made of some material which will act as an absorbent of the oil of the wick-as, for instance, asbestus-and disposed along a strip of metal or brass, a. The strip of metal or brass ahaving the absorbent is adapted to extend to the wick-tube A, to a point contigu ous to the upper end of the tube, where it is carried, with the absorbent, through the tube to bring the absorbent into contact with the said absorbent,

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strip of metal or support a, to allow the flame or ignited match to be readily applied thereto.

It will be noticed that, the absorbent on the plate a being saturated with the oil taken from the wick, it will, by applying the flame or ignited match thereto, transmit a flame along its surface to the upper end of the wick, and thus transfer the flame to the wick, efiecting the lighting of the same. It will feed its flame sufficiently long at its upper or wick-tube end to allow time for elevating the wick in the event the latter should be below the upper end of its tube. It is also capable of extinguishing itself by reason ot' the consumption of its supply of oil by combustion after the lighting of the wick. It will again supply itself with oil, ready to be relighted .wh-en desired.

It will be further observed that the lighting operation can be performed without requiring the removal of the chimney or other fixtures, while the great difficulty heretofore experienced in lighting oil-stoves is avoided.

The device B, by providingit with branches or arms arranged in a similar manner as its upwardly-extended portion, is adapted to be used with a lamp or oil-stove having a series of wicktubes or burnert.

It will also be understood that, instead of feeding the absorbent with oil from the wick, it may be fed directly from the vessel containing the oil by providing the absorbent with a branch or arm adapted to extend down into the oil-vessel.

Having thus described my invention, whatI claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

'1. The combination, with a wick-tube, of a lighting device having an absorbent adapted to take the oil from the wick and to transmit it throughout its surface, and extended a con- ICO venient distance therefrom, substantially as ward, (or upward,) substantially as and for the and for the purpose set forth. purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with a wick-tuhe,'of the 7 w lighting device B, having the absorbent or as- ADOLPH HEB RY SDHLUETER' 5 bestus, and the support to, extended to a point Witnesses:

contiguous to the upper end of the wick-tube A. G. LAWRENCE, and through it, and thence outward and down- 1 SMYTH ULARK. 

